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Australia tests residentially aggregated flexible demand

Smart Energy International

Five hundred South Australian households will partake in a new project from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and electricity distributor SA Power Networks to trial smart home energy management and its effect on the power system. million (US$9.2

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Demand response a key element for a reinvented grid to reach net zero

Smart Energy International

Demand response and energy management are a crucial part of the solution to make Australia’s fast-changing electricity sector work reliably, writes Diogo Cabral, Senior Business Development at GridBeyond. Is the network ready to sustain such a huge and abrupt increase in consumption from the switch to electric? Have you read?

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Why Build a Power Plant if You Can Make a Virtual One?

GreenTechMedia

But with carbon emissions out of fashion and growing levels of demand response and distributed renewables on the grid, virtual power plants are stepping in to replace those central generators. Areas with growing electricity demand may require new power plants, even if some of it can be supplanted by distributed generation.

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V2G backs up Australia’s grid during extreme weather emergency

Smart Energy International

During a major storm event that eventually cut power to tens of thousands of homes, a fleet of EVs was able to feed power back into Australia’s electricity grid via a V2G system, according to research from The Australian National University (ANU). The EV trial took place during an event in February, caused by storms in Victoria.

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ARENA and Shell Energy to demonstrate commercial flexibility in Australia

Smart Energy International

Shell Energy’s ‘Commercialising Smart Energy Hubs’ project will recruit at least 40 commercial and industrial (C&I) customer sites to demonstrate flexible demand capacity. To achieve the full potential of flexible demand, we will require new innovation, technologies and market processes. million ($5.7 million ($19.7

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GridBeyond launches operations in Australia

Smart Energy International

Dublin headquartered GridBeyond, a specialist in demand response, continues its expansion with its presence in Australia. GridBeyond will provide AI-powered demand response, virtual power plant (VPP) services and generation and storage asset optimisation across Australia’s National Electricity Market.

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Rethinking the energy grid: The evolution of mission-critical power

Smart Energy International

From powering the servers and storage equipment to cooling infrastructures, data centres have a large appetite for electricity. Today, it is estimated that data centres account for 1% of world’s electricity consumption and 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. And with IDC forecasting a 17.5% In 2019, they awarded AU$9.6

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